Mission, Goals and Philosophy

Mission

The St. Anthony Hospital General Surgery residency
program is committed to assuring excellence in osteopathic surgical education
through training and self-directed learning, patient care and advocacy, and leadership development. We seek to foster continuing personal growth and professional
relationships.

The goals of the St Anthony Hospital General Surgery
Residency Program sponsored
by KCUMB are:

To
provide residents with comprehensive structured cognitive and procedural
clinical education in both inpatient and outpatient settings;

To
provide training in all general surgery aspects that will enable them to become
competent, proficient and professional surgeons upon completion from the
training program;

Train
surgeons who after having passed the qualifying and certifying examinations of
Surgery, will remain lifelong learners, teachers and leaders in a constantly
changing environment.

The program will provide each resident with a sufficient scope, volume
and variety of clinical experiences in general surgery:

Each
Resident in the program will document by program completion, participation,
under appropriate supervision, a minimum of 750 major surgical procedures, as
surgeon or first assistant.

During
the chief year, at least 150 major surgical procedures of appropriate scope and
variety with senior responsibility must be documented. (Up to 50 of these may be logged as a
teaching assistant (TA) with a junior resident logging the procedure.)

During
each year of the program, progression of surgical responsibility should be
demonstrated including an adequate scope, volume, and variety of surgical
experience.

The program provides
clinical learning and experience in the pre-operative, peri-operative and
post-operative learning and surgical experience for patients with all diseases
which fall within the scope of practice of general surgery.

In addition, the program
will provide educational requirements such as textbooks and literature
representing minimal core knowledge of surgery, annually required scholarly
activities for which the program will provide direction, support and education
(study design techniques, research methods, literature, library access, etc.)
and attendance to key committees and team meetings to further the Residents’
knowledge and understanding of the medical centers’ patient-centered
activities, procedures and processes and the physicians’ role.

Evaluations,
being an essential key to any high quality training program, will be used
frequently and by many members of the residency program team to provide
assessment, feedback and opportunities for improvement.